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People who do not know how to practice the way therefore want to get rid of afflictions. Afflictions are originally void and null; you are trying to use the way to seek the way beyond. –Pao-chih From “The Pocket Zen Reader,” edited by Thomas Cleary, 1999. Reprinted by arrangement with Shambhala Publications, Boston, www.shambhala.com.

So Joseph settled his father and his brothers, giving them holdings in the choicest part of the land of Egypt, in the region of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded. Joseph sustained his father, and his brothers, and all his father’s household with bread, down to the little ones. Now there was no bread in all…

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. –Elizabeth Foley

Preacher: “How come I never see you in church anymore, Morris?” Morris: “There are too many hypocrites there, Reverend.” Preacher: “Don’t worry, Morris; there’s always room for one more.”

Matthew 24:1-14 As Jesus came out of the temple and was going away, his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple. 2 Then he asked them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly I tell you, not one stone will be left here upon another; all will be thrown…

[1] And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. [2] And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not…

“This special boy was my dog. I had to move into an apartment because I became disabled and lost my house.” –from Beliefnet member nabial Add your prayers now

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A person is prohibited to eat until he first feeds his animals. –Babylonian Talmud, Berakhot 40a As cited in “Jewish Wisdom” by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin.

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